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COALITION AGAINST NUKES RALLY FOR NUCLEAR-FREE ENERGY Oct. 1, NYC
and NATIONWIDE
New York, New York September 12, 2011 Business News
Coalition Against Nukes Rally, October 1, 2011
(Long Island, NY, September 12, 2011) The Coalition Against Nukes
National Day of Action flagship rally will be Saturday, October 1,
2011 at Pier 95 Hudson River Park, NYC, from Noon to 3:30 pm, with
more events happening throughout the United States.
Visitwww.CoalitionAgainstNukes.org.
The Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns inspired this grassroots action. It
was intensified by the August 23 magnitude 5.8 earthquake that
caused two reactors at Virginia’s North Anna nuclear plant to shut
down. Twelve reactors up and down the eastern US reported “unusual
events” to the NRC.
Then, on August 28, Hurricane Irene demonstrated powerfully that
electrical power and transportation routes can be disrupted over a
very large area-for days and weeks.
In New York, Entergy’s aging, leaky, 40-year old Indian Point
nuclear reactors, with uncorrected safety concerns yet under
consideration for additional 20-year relicensing by the Obama
Administration, are located near 2 fault lines, just north of NYC in
a very densely-populated area. Twenty million people live within 50
miles of Indian Point in NY, New Jersey and Connecticut.
We stand with the people of Japan who are suffering this ongoing
nuclear disaster. We cannot let that happen here!
WHEN:
Saturday, October 1, 2011 from 12:00pm – 3:30pm
WHERE:
Hudson River Park, Pier 95, 12th Ave @ West 55th Street, NYC
Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Washington.
WHY:
The health impacts of Fukushima are far from over. We are forced to
watch Japan succumb to a growing medical and environmental
catastrophe that will unfold for generations, and may equal or
surpass the damage of Chernobyl. Fukushima made it very clear what
happens when back-up systems fail, government withholds information,
and Industry is in charge of safety.
The American public must be roused to the danger of the nuclear
power industry and the cozy regulatory milieu, including hasty
relicensing of old plants, lack of security and permanent storage
for radioactive waste, insufficient evacuation plans, billions in
taxpayer subsidies, and more.
“Consider the economic consequences of a meltdown at Indian Point
from an earthquake. New York, the world’s financial capital, could
be rendered virtually uninhabitable,” said Dr. Helen Caldicott, co-
founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility and keynote speaker
for the NYC Rally.
“Fukushima fallout is traversing the Northern Hemisphere, turning up
in milk, food, and water; on tourists in airports, and products in
shipping bays around the world,” Caldicott said.
Coalition Against Nukes executive director Priscilla Star lives
downwind across the Long Island Sound from Millstone Power Station’s
nuclear reactors in Waterford, CT.
“We hear from Japanese people affected by Fukushima every day at the
Coalition Against Nukes Facebook page,” said Priscilla Star,
executive director. “They’re afraid to abandon their homes and
businesses, but afraid to stay while they get increasingly sick with
symptoms of radiation sickness,” she said. “They’re frightened for
their children and it just breaks your heart.”
“We have 104 nuclear reactors here in the US, as well as
earthquakes, tornadoes and hurricanes. We’re just as vulnerable,”
Star said.
NYC RALLY SPEAKERS:
· Dr. Helen Caldicott – Keynote
· Dr. Caldicott is a pediatrician who has devoted the last 38 years
to education about the health hazards of the nuclear age. She is the
co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
· Brent Blackwelder, President Emeritus, Friends of the Earth, and
the most senior environmental lobbyist in Washington D.C.
· Former US Congressman John Hall represented NY’s 19th District,
including Indian Point. Co-founder of Musicians United for Safe
Energy—MUSE
· Harvey Wasserman anti-nuclear activist, author of SOLARTOPIA!:
Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030
· Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear.
· Karl Grossman, investigative journalist, author, and professor at
SUNY Old Westbury, recipient of the George Polk, James Aronson and
· Alice Slater, Founder of Abolition 2000, NY Director of Nuclear
Age Peace Foundation and its UN representative.
Rally co-sponsors: Friends of the Earth, NYC Sierra Club,
Greenpeace, Ralph Nader, New York Physicians for Social
Responsibility, NYPIRG, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Helen
Caldicott Foundation, IPSEC, Beyond Nuclear, Westchester Citizens
Awareness Network, Shut Down Indian Point Now, Time’s Up, ECOFEST,
Rock the Reactors.
Rally updates www.CoalitionAgainstNukes.org To help or volunteer
email NYCRally@CoalitionAgainstNukes.org call 631-377-1560
Julie McQuain
Coalition Against Nukes
212-477-0472
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